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john boehner is the speaker of the house. john boehner realizes that he has to confront his own people if he is going to save the credit rating them back on moody's and save it from downgrade. this is going to be a political disaster. john boehner can fill in the back of his scalp that this is going to be burning on the republicans. he feels political blame but it's also worried about the country. two hearts -- two heartbeats away from the downgrade. and so, he does something extraordinary. he acts like a leader. he comes up with a compromise. that is a political possibility from where he sits and he finds out a way to close loopholes and raise some $800 billion in new revenue. that should be enough to make a deal with the president of the united states. and he manages to come to a deal. even shake hands. and they can feel history, the wind of history at their back. and then we will reform entitlement. the vice president is deeply involved. at the very moment that they are making this deal and they shake hands, obama suddenly
john boehner is the speaker of the house. john boehner realizes that he has to confront his own people if he is going to save the credit rating them back on moody's and save it from downgrade. this is going to be a political disaster. john boehner can fill in the back of his scalp that this is going to be burning on the republicans. he feels political blame but it's also worried about the country. two hearts -- two heartbeats away from the downgrade. and so, he does something extraordinary. he...
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i maggie gallagher and this is john corvino. i promise you i started out being, this is an unused situation for the show, we are co-authors, not a host an interviewer. so i kind of hosted the first half an hour so let me to it over to you and what burning questions do you have for me that you would want to know? >> guest: let's talk about something from the book. and i'm going to read a paragraph from my section. this is from chapter to which is my opening chapter, and i'm describing a same-sex wedding scene. i say as they walked down the aisle and and and, i notice they are sweating. this is probably rush from anxiety in the heat. it's june and the old church is not air-conditioned to te couple are wearing smart black tuxedos. that fathers are dressed in suits. their mothers and tasteful formal dresses. many in the congregation are think themselves with the programs. .. and then you proceeds. lacquer that it is just the same. it is in fact the union of male and female. what makes it even people who have no religion a sense of q
i maggie gallagher and this is john corvino. i promise you i started out being, this is an unused situation for the show, we are co-authors, not a host an interviewer. so i kind of hosted the first half an hour so let me to it over to you and what burning questions do you have for me that you would want to know? >> guest: let's talk about something from the book. and i'm going to read a paragraph from my section. this is from chapter to which is my opening chapter, and i'm describing a...
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the negotiations get tough with john out one point he blocks of of the room and with the then speaker pelosi i am not a stupid man and what sort of the room they win people over to the vision to persuade compromises and cuddles, coaches, those with has to be done and get there forever there is. that is one of the suspect. the other is tough on the support and it's just as he is tough on himself and when someone has lost the trust of his fellow colleagues, when he has acted unethical, he needs to go. a leader has a vision, too. >> host: in the principle. yet all the qualities a leader needs to have to be the >> guest: a leader needs to be if this of obstacles. if you are a solitary ceo of a corporation, it is about scaling of the obstacles. overcoming adversity, and you don't give up. you in spite. keep going and inspire yourself and followers second near the keep going until you get there and the impossible gets to be possible that people with vision and determination is the reason we have leaders and we do not randomly select people out of the crowd. not everybody has that quality. t
the negotiations get tough with john out one point he blocks of of the room and with the then speaker pelosi i am not a stupid man and what sort of the room they win people over to the vision to persuade compromises and cuddles, coaches, those with has to be done and get there forever there is. that is one of the suspect. the other is tough on the support and it's just as he is tough on himself and when someone has lost the trust of his fellow colleagues, when he has acted unethical, he needs...
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following this talk, john farrell will be in the tent to talk about his new book. then associate editor of the "washington post," his most recent book is a biography of president obama, barack obama, the story. it is called following mr. meredith. bob woodward her. his 19th book, the press and politics. he will be talking in the tent this afternoon. then pulitzer prize winner daniel juergen will be joining us here on our book tv set here on the mall to talk about his newest book, the quest, energy use in america. then christopher brown will join us for our call -in segment. eminent outlaws. gay writers in america. and then finally in the history and biography tend sally smith who has written a biography of the queen of england. she will be talking about her book. and then book tv will be joining her on set, on stage for a live national call in. so stick with us all day long for our live coverage here on book tv on c-span2. however, if that is not what you are looking for and you are looking for different authors, you can go to booktv.org. there are 16 tense down he
following this talk, john farrell will be in the tent to talk about his new book. then associate editor of the "washington post," his most recent book is a biography of president obama, barack obama, the story. it is called following mr. meredith. bob woodward her. his 19th book, the press and politics. he will be talking in the tent this afternoon. then pulitzer prize winner daniel juergen will be joining us here on our book tv set here on the mall to talk about his newest book, the...
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they killed 10 belgian soldiers in the battalion was with john. this reluctance gave instructions to protect only themselves. so the commander was left with several hundred men to do his work with the formation of claim and the systematic genocide is going on. and the helpless situation. but we couldn't get the troops. some governments claim they did not know what was happening. then i asked him, what did they do when they found out it was happening? they sent in planes. and allowed it to continue. in the end, we blame the u.n. we all need to find a better way of tackling this, and, of course, somalia, rwanda, bosnia and others. that was one of the reasons why i felt that we need to find a way of tackling these crises better, and that led to the responsibility to protect. >> host: talk a little bit more about some of the specific cases. you have an extraordinary account in the book. in january of 1994, we are receiving a cable from an informant in rwanda who basically told you exactly what was going to happen. and it did happen. so the idea that t
they killed 10 belgian soldiers in the battalion was with john. this reluctance gave instructions to protect only themselves. so the commander was left with several hundred men to do his work with the formation of claim and the systematic genocide is going on. and the helpless situation. but we couldn't get the troops. some governments claim they did not know what was happening. then i asked him, what did they do when they found out it was happening? they sent in planes. and allowed it to...
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they get control of congress and john boehner or speaker speaker of the house and boehner realizes he has to confront his own caucus if he is going to save the united states credit rating and the credit rating agencies moody's and so on are prepared in august of 2011 for the first time in american history to downgrade the united states gets stripped of -- aaa status. boehner can feel the back of his scalp that this is going to be blamed on the republicans. so he feels political blame but is also worried about the country. does he really want to be one. two heartbeats away from the presidency. america's credit is downgraded for the first time in our history and so he does something extraordinary. he acts like a leader and. he comes up with a compromise, what they call a grand bargain and he can't raise taxes. that is a political impossibility from where he sits. but it does come up with a way to close tax loopholes and raise $800 billion in new revenue. that should be enough to make a deal with the president of the united states and he seeks out obama and together they are meeting secr
they get control of congress and john boehner or speaker speaker of the house and boehner realizes he has to confront his own caucus if he is going to save the united states credit rating and the credit rating agencies moody's and so on are prepared in august of 2011 for the first time in american history to downgrade the united states gets stripped of -- aaa status. boehner can feel the back of his scalp that this is going to be blamed on the republicans. so he feels political blame but is...
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goals that day aggregated they had him do a concert oriented to registration and it wasn't they sent in john legend to turn people out. that is happening everywhere. to all states we talk about to in october by each competes differently based on what is basically takes every name of every individual person and they are the turnout targets of louis this persuade double where it goes. >> with everything you know, will there be one case state? if you are interested in? >> to us because they're new two presidential politics it is interesting to see the campaigns to don't have day reflective said of tactics one-party user not equally established to write the presidential campaign. after spending one year you have the most granular familiarity with some of these statistical models but the empirical research of cause and effect i have less and less safe of predictions those who will have very big things but there is a lot in campaigning that that i write about people in politics learned what works and what doesn't people are far more aware of limitations and knowledge and the day are significant. w
goals that day aggregated they had him do a concert oriented to registration and it wasn't they sent in john legend to turn people out. that is happening everywhere. to all states we talk about to in october by each competes differently based on what is basically takes every name of every individual person and they are the turnout targets of louis this persuade double where it goes. >> with everything you know, will there be one case state? if you are interested in? >> to us because...
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the negotiations get tough, john boehner at one point walks out of the room. at another point when he's negotiating with then speaker nancy pelosi, says i'm not a man walks out of the room. that is not leadership. if leader stays engaged, wins people over, persuades, compromises, controls, does what has to be done in order to get there, wherever there is. that is one of the aspects of leadership. another is the stuff on subordinates, just as his tie for self. when he's lied, what is that.net typically, he needs to go. a leader has a vision. hosts are absolutely, and other
the negotiations get tough, john boehner at one point walks out of the room. at another point when he's negotiating with then speaker nancy pelosi, says i'm not a man walks out of the room. that is not leadership. if leader stays engaged, wins people over, persuades, compromises, controls, does what has to be done in order to get there, wherever there is. that is one of the aspects of leadership. another is the stuff on subordinates, just as his tie for self. when he's lied, what is that.net...